Markets

Several fruit, vegetable and flower retailers across Melbourne have been fined $243,000 for underpaying workers and failing to keep proper records. A & S Wholesale Fruit and Vegetables Pty Ltd, trading as Parkmore Fruit and […]

Late autumn showers have given east coast farmers a drop of relief but rainfall in many of the nation’s key agricultural regions remains below five-year average levels as drought conditions continue. Rabobank’s latest monthly agribusiness […]

Gold prices rose 1.5 per cent overnight, a day after posting the biggest one-day percentage fall in two and a half years, as US Treasury yields fell on worries over global growth and renewed concerns […]

OPEC has agreed to extend oil supply cuts until March 2020 as the group’s members overcame their differences in order to prop up the price of crude amid a weakening global economy and soaring US […]

The Australian dollar has slipped as traders were cautious ahead of an expected interest rate cut by the central bank while disappointing economic data from top trading partner China also weighed. The Australian dollar fell […]